Sylvia Ashton-Warner (Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner) Quotes
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
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So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.
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Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.
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After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
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Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.
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Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
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To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.
